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Silent Spring
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Rachel Carson
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 13,052 ratings
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A Sand County Almanac: With Other Essays on Conservation from Round River
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Aldo Leopold
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 9,210 ratings
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by
Michael Pollan
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 84,805 ratings
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Green Illusions
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Ozzie Zehner (Goodreads Author)
4.58 of 5 stars 4.58 avg rating — 311 ratings
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The Lorax
by
Dr. Seuss
4.37 of 5 stars 4.37 avg rating — 115,825 ratings
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Desert Solitaire
by
Edward Abbey
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 13,595 ratings
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Walden
by
Henry David Thoreau
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 55,045 ratings
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The World Without Us
by
Alan Weisman
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 15,579 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by
Jared Diamond
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 27,149 ratings
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Never Cry Wolf
by
Farley Mowat
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 7,954 ratings
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The Monkey Wrench Gang
by
Edward Abbey
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 9,297 ratings
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
by
Bill Bryson
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 107,860 ratings
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Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
by
Daniel Quinn
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 39,298 ratings
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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
by
Michael Pollan
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 48,582 ratings
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Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
by
Richard Louv
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 4,560 ratings
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
by
Marc Reisner
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 3,076 ratings
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
by
Barbara Kingsolver
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 59,168 ratings
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Eating Animals
by
Jonathan Safran Foer
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 22,586 ratings
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Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth / My First Summer in the Sierra / The Mountains of California / Stickeen / Essays (Library of America #92)
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John Muir
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 257 ratings
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
by
William McDonough
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 4,520 ratings
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
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Eric Schlosser
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 145,620 ratings
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Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds (Story of Elsa, #1)
by
Joy Adamson
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 10,900 ratings
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America
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Thomas L. Friedman
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 7,246 ratings
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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
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David Quammen (Goodreads Author)
4.35 of 5 stars 4.35 avg rating — 2,543 ratings
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Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
by
Janisse Ray
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 814 ratings
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Small Wonder
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Barbara Kingsolver
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 5,660 ratings
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Holy Bible: The Green Bible, New Revised Standard Version
by
Anonymous
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Six Degrees
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Mark Lynas
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 408 ratings
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
by
Timothy Egan
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 15,059 ratings
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
by
Mark Kurlansky
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 6,567 ratings
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The Milagro Beanfield War
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John Nichols
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 3,684 ratings
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Cry of the Kalahari
by
Mark James Owens
4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 939 ratings
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The Diversity of Life
by
Edward O. Wilson
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 1,726 ratings
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Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
by
Bill McKibben
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 2,159 ratings
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The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
by
Tim Flannery
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 1,301 ratings
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Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
by
Terry Tempest Williams
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 3,771 ratings
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Walking
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Henry David Thoreau
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 1,003 ratings
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Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front
by
Joel Salatin
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 696 ratings
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Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
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Elizabeth Kolbert
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 1,065 ratings
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The Hot Zone
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Richard Preston
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 32,985 ratings
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Permaculture: A Designers' Manual
by
Bill Mollison
4.45 of 5 stars 4.45 avg rating — 565 ratings
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
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Michael Pollan
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 22,723 ratings
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Stalking the Wild Asparagus
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Euell Gibbons
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 407 ratings
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Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
by
E.F. Schumacher
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 1,695 ratings
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Last Chance to See
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Douglas Adams
4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 8,193 ratings
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Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization
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Derrick Jensen
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 1,221 ratings
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The Riverkeepers: Two Activists Fight to Reclaim Our Environment as a Basic Human Right
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John Cronin
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 88 ratings
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The Sea Around Us
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Rachel Carson
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 815 ratings
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Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World
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Alan Weisman
4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 373 ratings
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The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
by
Wendell Berry
4.37 of 5 stars 4.37 avg rating — 1,429 ratings
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The End of Nature
by
Bill McKibben
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 1,054 ratings
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Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape: Vermont's Champlain Valley and New York's Adirondacks
by
Bill McKibben
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 248 ratings
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The Empty Ocean
by
Richard Ellis
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating
by
Jane Goodall
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1,089 ratings
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Wild Land
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Kathryn Hogan (Goodreads Author)
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Population Bomb
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Paul R. Ehrlich
3.29 of 5 stars 3.29 avg rating — 168 ratings
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Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators
by
William Stolzenburg
4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 417 ratings
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Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
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James E. Lovelock
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 471 ratings
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Wolf Willow
by
Wallace Stegner
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 287 ratings
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The Diversity of Living Organisms
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Richard S. K. Barnes (Editor)
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau (Library of America #182)
by
Bill McKibben (Editor)
4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 177 ratings
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Southcrop Forest
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Lorne Rothman (Goodreads Author)
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
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An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
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Al Gore
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 3,692 ratings
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The Mystic Princesses and the Whirlpool
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P.J. LaRue (Goodreads Author)
4.63 of 5 stars 4.63 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Vainglorious Sun
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Mark D. Longo (Goodreads Author)
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
by
Michael Pollan
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 2,850 ratings
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Heat: How to Stop the Planet From Burning
by
George Monbiot
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 424 ratings
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Green Is the New Red: An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege
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Will Potter (Goodreads Author)
4.41 of 5 stars 4.41 avg rating — 210 ratings
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The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird
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Bruce Barcott
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 250 ratings
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No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs
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Naomi Klein
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 10,857 ratings
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Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas
by
Carl Safina (Goodreads Author)
4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 273 ratings
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Earth from Above
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Yann Arthus-Bertrand
4.48 of 5 stars 4.48 avg rating — 286 ratings
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Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air
by
David J.C. MacKay
4.34 of 5 stars 4.34 avg rating — 247 ratings
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The Moon in the Nautilus Shell: Discordant Harmonies Reconsidered: From Climate Change to Species Extinction, How Life Persists in an Ever-Changing World
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Daniel Botkin
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Food Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It
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Karl Weber
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 6,116 ratings
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The Secret Knowledge Of Water: Discovering The Essence Of The American Desert
by
Craig Childs
4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 619 ratings
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The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth
by
Edward O. Wilson
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 526 ratings
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Playing God in Yellowstone: The Destruction of America's First National Park
by
Alston Chase
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 82 ratings
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The Fifth Sacred Thing (Maya Greenwood, #1)
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Starhawk
4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 2,545 ratings
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by
Malcolm Gladwell
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 222,433 ratings
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Sleeping Naked is Green: How an Eco-Cynic Unplugged Her Fridge, Sold Her Car, and Found Love in 366 Days
by
Vanessa Farquharson
3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 512 ratings
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The Ecology of Commerce Revised Edition: A Declaration of Sustainability
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Paul Hawken
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 938 ratings
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Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard Into a Garden and Your Neighborhood Into a Community
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H.C. Flores
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 557 ratings
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Planetwalker: 22 Years of Walking. 17 Years of Silence.
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John Francis
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 319 ratings
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The Revenge Of Gaia: Why The Earth Is Fighting Back And How We Can Still Save Humanity
by
James E. Lovelock
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 625 ratings
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A People's Ecology: Explorations in Sustainable Living
by
Gregory Cajete (Editor)
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings
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"Legacy, The": An ElderÕs Vision for Our Sustainable Future
by
David Suzuki
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Overheated: The Human Cost of Climate Change
by
Andrew T. Guzman (Goodreads Author)
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Float
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JoeAnn Hart (Goodreads Author)
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Nocturne, Opus 1: Sea Foam
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Norene Moskalski (Goodreads Author)
4.76 of 5 stars 4.76 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century's Sustainability Crises
by
Richard Heinberg (Editor)
4.29 of 5 stars 4.29 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Arctic Dreams
by
Barry Lopez
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 2,037 ratings
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Look To The Mountain: An Ecology Of Indigenous Education
by
Gregory Cajete
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence
by
Gregory Cajete
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect
by
David W. Orr
4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 191 ratings
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Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger
by
Margaret Mittelbach
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 153 ratings
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The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature
by
David Suzuki
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 443 ratings
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Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream
by
William Powers
3.51 of 5 stars 3.51 avg rating — 481 ratings
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David Suzuki's Green Guide
by
David Suzuki
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Diet for a Small Planet
by
Frances Moore Lappé
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 2,197 ratings
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